William Brand

DAY 37: While this is later than the Golden Age, it's an interesting polling piece about freeholders in the County of Kent. This is set up on a letter sized page and a quarter inch should be taken off all four sides to be close to the original document. 1754-FreeholdersPoll.pdf

DAY 36: This is a great map by Herrera from 1601. While an older map, it has some great details and covers a broad area of the World. It's too big to be printed on smaller, standard papers, but it's a great piece. 1601-Herrera.pdf

DAY 35: His Majesty's Most Gracious Speech to Both Houses of Parliament. This is setup on legal sized paper with crop marks. 1715-HisMajestys.pdf

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Oh, no, you most definitely have to change it. And the new title has to be impossible to mimic. Your new name shall be 'That_Crimson_Part_Of_The_Day_Which_Comes_After_Night_But_Before_Breakfast_Generally_Speaking_Except_On_Bank_Holidays'. It might have to be an acronym.

That person joined in 2004 and only posted once.

aye (1) "assent," 1570s, of unknown origin, perhaps a variant of I, meaning "I assent;" or an alteration of M.E. yai "yes" (see yea), or from aye (2) "always, ever." bloody (adj.) O.E. blodig, adjective from blod (see blood). Common Germanic, cf. O.Fris. blodich, O.S. blôdag, Du. bloedig, O.H.G. bluotag, Ger. blutig. It has been a British intens. swear word since at least 1676. Weekley relates it to the purely intensive use of the cognate Du. bloed, Ger. Blut. But perhaps it ultimately is connected with bloods in the slang sense of "rowdy young aristocrats" (see blood (n.)) via expressions such as bloody drunk "as drunk as a blood." Partridge reports that it was "respectable" before c.1750, and it was used by Fielding and Swift, but heavily tabooed c.1750-c.1920, perhaps from imagined association with menstruation; Johnson calls it "very vulgar," and OED writes of it, "now constantly in the mouths of the lowest classes, but by respectable people considered 'a horrid word', on par with obscene or profane language." The onset of the taboo against bloody coincides with the increase in linguistic prudery that presaged the Victorian Era but it is hard to say what the precise cause was in the case of this specific word. Attempts have been made to explain the term’s extraordinary shock power by invoking etymology. Theories that derive it from such oaths as “By our Lady” or “God’s blood” seem farfetched, however. More likely, the taboo stemmed from the fear that many people have of blood and, in the minds of some, from an association with menstrual bleeding. Whatever, the term was debarred from polite society during the whole of the nineteenth century. [Rawson] Shaw shocked theatergoers when he put it in the mouth of Eliza Doolittle in "Pygmalion" (1914), and for a time the word was known euphemistically as "the Shavian adjective." It was avoided in print as late as 1936. Bloody Sunday, Jan. 30, 1972, when 13 civilians were killed by British troops at protest in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

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That's no title. It's practically a FORWARD.

DAY 34: 'The Case of His Excellency the Governour and Council Of the Province of the Massachusettes-Bay in New-England, truly Stated. Phew. One of the longer titles. This is a two sided document on letter sized paper and folded. 1715-CaseofHisExcelency.pdf

Have license to vapour, will vapour.

DAY 33: This is a huge map of Moscow from 1695. 1695-Moscow.pdf

I transcribed it here. I think I have them all correct. GREETINGS AND TITLES: Good Morrow, Master or Mistress God gi' god-den, goodman (good evening) Fare you well, Parson Rishard. Give your worship good morrow. God be wi' you, good wife (woman). How now (where are you going). An't please your worship. Are you well, master? I see you have been fortunate since last we met. Prithee (I pray you) (name) you be early abroad. I pray you It fortuned me to meet Dawlin (Darling) Good day to 'ee, Master. Sharpish in't it. Fellow (equal or companion) To morn Mawther (girl) Bor (neighbor) Goody (wife or nurse) In the even' (evening) OATHS FOR LADIES: Faith (indeed) Marry (to be sure) Marry gypeey Gemini Lud Lord La OATHS FOR MEN: Bastard Bugger Claybrained Clodpoll Confound you or it Cuds Dandypratt Egad - 1670s, I gad, a softened oath, second element God, first uncertain; perhaps it represents exclamation ah. Faith (indeed) Gadzooks - See zooks God Almighty Fegs 'Ot rot me Hell and the devil confound You Yirads Gad's my life Lord B'Gad Damn I'faith Lud 'Odso 'Odslife Faggins Zoodlikes Yah! (cr of defiance) Rip me Burn my vitals Hellsteeth Beggar me Rot my vitals The devil Devil taw it Mother of God God's death By God's dines Gar - God e.g. Begar! by Gar! By the masking 'Slight (God's light) Snoggers 'Sdeath 'Sbud 'Sprecious (God's precious) Stap me vitals 'Steeth 'Slife (God's Life) Stap me 'Sbody (God's Body) 'Stooth 'Sooth 'Sblood (God's Blood) 'Wounds Zlife Zleds Zounds - c.1600, oath of surprise or anger, altered from (by) God's wounds! Zoons Zooks - as in gadzooks'. 1690s, from some exclamation, possibly God's hooks (nails of the cross) or even God's hocks. Cf. godsookers (1670s). The use of Gad for God (cf. egad) is first attested 1590s. Among other similar phraseological combinations (all from 17c.) were gadsbobs, gadslid, and gadsniggers; in all of which the second elements are sometimes said to be mere fanciful syllables. ORDERS, COMMANDS, EXHORTATIONS: Cheerly, good hearts Bestir Fall to't yarely Come hither, sirrah! Have a care (be prepared) Forsooth I'll be sworn By my troth I say 'son of a whore' all the time. I'll have to watch myself at events.

DAY 32: This is an interesting little piece about an uprising of arms at Boston in 1689 and the publication of the surrender. It's set up at 8.5" x 11". 1689-BostonSurrender.pdf

Will photography be allowed at the event? If so, take lots of pictures.

It's a beautiful boat and I hope a compromise that satisfies all parties can be reached.

Amen. It was all her idea to hand stitch it. I would have been happy with machine stitching on something that large, but she said no. She insisted that that much wool and linen should be hand sewn. I didn't argue her generous offer. Thank you. I passed along all the compliments and she's beaming. This would be a good time for me to propose a silk version of my Moorish flag...

Agreed. I love this impression. The day to day, working additions to the hobby round out the vitality of the whole thing. Impressions like Silkie's Hide, Chloe's Coffe House, Bo's Grinding and Ivan Henry's father's Chicken Crier are awesome additions to events. Everyone needs to experience the 'indentured washer woman' at Fort de Chartres to know what I'm talking about.

DAY 31: This is a 1664 drawing of the fortress, chateau and shipyards at Saint Malo. Since I can't be sure of the size of the original, I simply placed it on an 11" x 17" 1664-SaintMalo.pdf

DAY 30: This is an English pamphlet criticizing Louis XIV for his lack of support in the Siege of Vienna in 1683. I've set it two up on an 8.5" x 11". Just print and cut in two. 1683-LettersofGold.pdf

And the crew continues to grow. Congratulations.

Welcome aboard, Cap'n.

Just a few off ebay.... http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vtg-Pair-Unpainted-Unfinished-REAL-Non-souvenir-Wood-Wooden-Dutch-Holland-Shoes-/260981102172?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cc3af965c http://www.ebay.com/itm/WOODEN-SHOES-from-HOLLAND-ca-World-War-Two-/251024089121?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a7233a021 http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hand-made-wooden-shoes-purchased-in-Holland-never-worn-/320874055309?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4ab595868d

That is a fantastic impression, believable and well executed. I will look about for one. It would be a shame to ruin a good shoe if an old one may be found.

Thank you, but apart from the design the lion's share of the work goes to my wife. Hand sewing a flag of that magnitude was hell on fingers and eyesight. I'll pass along the compliment.